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At the same time, I left the Soviet Union with a sense of deep foreboding. We're getting to a point where Gorbachev and his colleagues will have to make some fundamental choices, all of them very difficult and all of them pregnant with dangers. He will either have to...
Q. In the latest issue of Foreign Affairs you say that the U.S.S.R. is becoming a "volcano" and a "battleground" of warring nationalities. Will there even be a U.S.S.R. in the year 2001?
A. No. There will have to be something very different. The pace of change, the scale of change, and the drama of the change are all such that we have to stop thinking in conventional terms. Perhaps there will be a Soviet confederation of some sort, much looser than what...
After more than two troubled years as the Government's top savings and loan regulator, M. Danny Wall fell victim to the nation's spreading S&L scandal. The clamor for his ouster mounted last month after lower-ranking bank examiners told Congress that Wall had unduly delayed for 21...
That crisis could soon become worse, because new requirements designed to strengthen the thrifts could instead push many of them into extinction. Starting last week, S&Ls must greatly increase their capitalization as a hedge against losses from problem loans, interest-rate swings and bad investment decisions. Among other things...